The gleaming blade was as white as snow, with a fine blue silk handle and a black tsuba mad of iron. [2] Hubris was a heinous sin for a samurai, placing their own personal interest over that of their lord. [1] It glossy inflated the ego of any samurai who carried it. [3]

Somehow Doji Jotaro was in possession of the blade. It haunted his thoughts, destroying his sanity, but he could not part with it. [4] Jotaro believed he could master the blade, [5] but his behaviour changed and became a disgrace to him and his clan. [6]